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Home Front: Politix
New Orleans Visits Cuba to Learn about ‘Economic Development’ and ‘Quality of Life’
2019-04-18
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Move over AOC! Just when you thought AOC (or her scriptwriter) was unbeatable. Just when you thought blather from public servants could not possibly become more daft. Just when you thought AOC’s throne atop the pinnacle was unreachable and her crown secure‐New Orleans’ Democrat mayor LaToya Cantrell (or her scriptwriter) lunges for the royal scepter.

You see, amigos: The Democrat mayor and a retinue of associated New Orleans city officials spent all of last week in Havana, Cuba to, in the mayors office’s own words:

"see firsthand how (Cuba’s) history has produced unique opportunities and challenges in the areas of economic development, trade, health care, education and other quality of life issues."

I realize this sounds like shameless AOC idiocy one-upsmanship. I realize that learning about "quality of life" from a place that saw multiple times as many desperate people die trying to escape it, as died trying to escape over the Berlin Wall, sounds like shameless click-bait, or even a Saturday Night Live or Monty Python skit. So here’s the proof.

In a way, however, the visit seems appropriate. After all, the rulers of one place drove out practically all productive residents with punitive socialist policies that converted a once charming and prosperous place into a huge slum except for a few tourism enclaves. The other place is named Cuba.

From Stalinist Cuba Democrat Cantrell dutifully performed all the traditional Democrat rituals mandatory for such visits, primarily hailing Cuba’s glorious "healthcare and education!"

"Mayor of New Orleans highlights Cuban achievements," crowed the totalitarian regime’s KGB-founded media:

"According to the Ms Cantrell, the level of the literacy in Cuba is very high, and when she compares this indicator with New Orleans, it is perceptible that there is much to learn from Cuba. She said the same thing happens when analyzing the primary health system, and stated that the U.S. city can take experiences in order to perfect their mother-child program."
Posted by:Fred

#7  "According to the Ms Cantrell, the level of the literacy in Cuba is very high, and when she compares this indicator with New Orleans, it is perceptible that there is much to learn from Cuba."

And in one sentence, Ms Cantrell is shown to be a Bernie fan.

Cubas duty free shops, however, will get a peek at Progressive Capitalism: "Help me steal take extort borrow inflate it away from someone else, and we can live live larg(er)."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2019-04-18 21:39  

#6  New Orleans is pretty much on an island surrounded by swamps, rivers, and lakes. It'll work as a moat.

The levees also function as a wall. (I've sometimes called it the "City Surrounded By A Hill.")

So yeah, it has a wall and a moat, and the remaining white people there have a strong Italian element. It'll work as a typical medieval city.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-04-18 12:26  

#5  First you need a Police State surrounded by a moat, barbed wire and armed guards to keep your citizens serfs from fleeing... Cuba has that and New Orleans does not, so epic fail on this plan.
Posted by: magpie   2019-04-18 10:59  

#4  The real purpose of the pilgrimage is to learn how leftist socialists stay in power.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-04-18 06:08  

#3  All those Cuban Nobel Prize winners...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-04-18 03:06  

#2  Next stop Chornobyl and an examination of the Atom.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-18 01:59  

#1  ...it is perceptible that there is much to learn from Cuba.

Yeah - do the opposite.
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-18 01:23  

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